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Breed: Entlebucher Mountain Dog
Breed Group: Working
Appearance: A medium sized, heavy boned, muscular dog with a short, thick, hard, glossy coat.
Originally bred as watchdogs and cattle dogs.
Easy going, loyal, friendly and intelligent.
Good with children.
Requires a moderate amount of exercise and little grooming.
An approximate lifespan of around 11 to 13 years.
Head: Head slightly wedge shaped with a rather flat, relatively broad skull tapering towards muzzle. Occipital bone barely visible.
Stop barely pronounced.
Muzzle strong, well chiselled and cleanly set off from forehead and cheeks; tapering evenly but not pointed. Bridge of nose straight.
Nose black in colour and protruding slightly over front edge of lips. Lips barely pronounced, close fitting to jaw with black pigmentation.
Eyes: Rather small eyes, round in shape, dark brown to hazel in colour, with a lively expression. Eyelids well fitting with black pigmentation on rims.
Ears: Not too big, set on high and relatively wide. Flaps pendulous, triangular, well rounded at tip. Firm, well developed ear cartilage. In repose lying flat and close to head; when alert, slightly raised at set on and turned forward.
Mouth: Strong, regular and complete scissor bite. Even bite tolerated.
Neck: Of medium length, strong, clean and merging smoothly with the body.
Forequarters: Strongly muscled but not too heavy. Forelegs placed neither too wide nor too close together; forelegs short, sturdy, straight, parallel and placed well under the body.
Shoulders muscular with a long, slanting shoulder blade well attached to the body.
Upper arm of equal length or slightly shorter than shoulder blade. Elbows well attached to the body. Forearms relatively short, straight, well boned and clean.
Pasterns seen fron the front in straight continuation of the forearm; seen from the side very slightly angulated and relatively short.
Body: Body strong and slightly elongated, back straight, firm, broad and relatively long.
Loins strong, supple and not too short. Croup slightly sloping and relatively long.
Chest broad, deep reaching to elbows. Pronounced forechest. Ribs moderately rounded. Ribcage extended, roundish-oval in diameter.
Lower line and belly with a slight tuck-up.
Hindquarters: Hindquarters well muscled, seen from behind hind legs not too close together, straight and parallel.
Upper thigh fairly long. Forming a rather wide angle with the lower thigh at the stifle joint. Thighs strong and broad. Lower thigh approximately equal length tp upper thigh, clean.
Hock joint strong, set relatively low and well angulated. Hock fairly short, sturdy, vertical and parallel in position. Dewclaws must be removed, except in those countries where the removal is prohibited by law.
Feet: Feet roundish with tight, well arched toes pointing straight forward. Nails short and strong. Pads coarse and robust.
Tail: Natural set tail on in continuation of the gently sloping croup.
Congenital bobtail.
Natural long tail and bobtail equally acceptable.
Gait movement: Ground covering, free, easy movement with strong drive from rear. Seen from front or rear, legs track in a straight line.
Coat: Double coat. Topcoat short, close fitting, harsh and shiny. Undercoat dense. Slightly wavy hair on withers and/or back tolerated but undesirable.
Colour: Typically tri-coloured. Basic colour black with "yellow-to reddish-brown" tan markings which should be as symmetric as possible. The tan markings are placed above the eyes, on cheeks, on muzzle and throat, on either side of chest and on all four legs. On the legs the tan markings are situated between the black and white. Undercoat dark grey to brownish.
White markings:- Distinct small with blaze that runs without interruption from top of head over the bridge of nose and can wholly or partially cover the muzzle.
White from chin over throat without interruption to chest.
White on all four feet.
On a long tail white tip desirable.
Undesirable but tolerated:- small white patch on nape of neck (not more than half the size of a palm).
Health checks: Hip scoring and eye test certificate recommended.
Height: from 45 to 50cm (Dogs) 42 to 48cm (Bitches)
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